Often times, people misidentify politics as two rich assholes in suits arguing about something that doesn’t affect them. Speaking in tongues (specifically in economics) designed to confuse and make it seem like the average person can’t participate. This is not the case. Politics is nothing more than how humans relate and organize with each other and how we set up human society. It is NOT putting a piece of paper in a box every 2 or 4 years. It is not duking it out and arguing. That may be a part of it, but it is not the whole.
It’s everything you need - food production, water conservation, shelter and environmental regulations. It’s everything you want - makeup, technology, cars, poop emoji pillows. All of it falls under the umbrella of modern society, the factors of production, and ultimately is political.
With that being said, it is not possible to be an “apolitical” human being in today’s world. If you’re reserved when it comes to your beliefs, or God forbid “don’t have any” you’re not being “unbiased” or above everyone who isn’t. You are simply choosing not to care or share your thoughts about the controversial, important issues that are constantly debated/need to be acted on in society. Your lack of input on the situation is a political statement in itself, and not a good one. You are showing you are either not affected by it, or are affected and just don’t care/believe you can make a change. Either way, you still participate in society without talking or doing anything about these things, and that is radical.
Point being, we must try to keep others from being a silent centrist/apolitical/moderate and actually stand firm in their beliefs. The time for reserved “agree to disagree” and voting for shit capitalist parties every few years passed long ago. We need to organize, come to basic agreements on what we all as a working class believe, and act on it.
I think we communists need to be more open and vocal about our beliefs, because we are running out of time. I don’t care that we live in a fascist hellhole (I am in the US). We’re in more long-term danger living the status quo than we are uniting with those around us to fight it.
Join a socialist/workers’ organization, help with mutual aid, and don’t be afraid bring up the difficult things. Don’t be obnoxious, but don’t just let this “difference in opinion, so I am not going to talk about it” mindset destroy the planet and humanity. Don’t let others stick their heads in the sand or doom about “there’s nothing we can do” - that thinking will just get us all killed anyways.
I feel like white, straight, well-off men can be the only people that can be apolitcal (without being in the top 1%, of course). Because no western politics will ever hurt them. And society is made for them.
There’s also a lot of disillusioned people in the global south who have been completely brainwashed to believe that the status quo is permanent and theres no point in discussing it. The myth of the European/American dream is very strong so people just assume that “Western” society is inherently superior and the only solution to disliking your society is to move to the west.
well, apolitical is mostly used in a “keep the status quo, but don’t make my salary lower” kinda way, or “keep the status quo to hold my delusion of someday being part of the elite” kinda way
Right, it’s people saying that they’re comfortable with the current state of things which is obviously an implicit endorsement of the status quo.
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Apolitical typically means “status quo”. They’re not negatively effected by the current order enough for them to share their empathy with others who are. Just like “Common sense” really means “dominant ideology”. I’ve yet to meet an apolitical person who really had no opinions on politics, they’re typically just unaware of the inherent ideological convictions that show up in their actions.
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I’m apolitical, in American. Cuz it is just two rich assholes in suits. Arguing about which rich assholes get more tax breaks. I wrote in turd sandwhich last election. Was upset giant douche took it.
Elections and debates aren’t the end all of politics. They’re basically the kindergarten of politics. Everything you do is informed by politics, and nearly everything you do is inherently political, whether or not you recognize it.
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Don’t you feel bad so blatantly disparaging people by using that slur?
They don’t. If you look at their comment history they love to use the word.
